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Hi, We were out mapping a storm water channel around an industrial facility. The last mission was the South Eastern boundary witch passed very close to the plant. On approach to the plant the copter…Continue

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"Mooi manne, looks absolutely great.
Please forward me a product brochure with an indication of pricing - antoniek at fraseralexander dot co dot za
Have you had any interaction with the CAA with regard to registering the airframe?
Impressive:)"

"OK, it seems like the ESC and AP requirements are met. You'll have to test the parts individually to check for defects or damage. Disconnect the ESC from the AP. Connect the ESC to a receiver outside the AP circuit and test them for correct…"

"Hi Michael,
The KDE ESC's have fixed end's, so you do not have to calibrate them - check under the copter wiki for ESC calibration - KDE ESC's are mentioned and explained how to set the range per channel in the MP UI. The problem of…"

"@Michael, OK thanks - thats great. I thought you had a second set running the correction. I recall a conversation with one of my RTK GPS suppliers that they ran into latency issues with the length of correction on the CMR format using multiple…"

"@Chris, thanks for sharing and well done Michael.
@Mike Papenhagen, hi, trust all is well. You can set up your Trimble or Leica base to feed the correction(CMR, RTCM ect.) to a serial port on the base. Keep the port settings in mind for the…"

"Hi Mike, Oh dear - my Talon, named Vakerie, was used as a plug to make a mold to build composite Talon's. This left my Talon with spray-on release agent from hell and the mold had a mechanical lock on the vertical faces that made it difficult…"

"Hi Mike, I trust all is well.
I have come to the crossroads a while back and derived the following:
1. The Talon, although a brilliant for what we do, is made from a foam that is aimed at the hobby market manufactured at the lowest possible…"

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I was just notified by a supplier of gps modules in RSA that this product has become available locally(RSA). I'm not sure how long this has been out in the rest of the world, but the following statement had my attention : NEO-6P GPS module for Precise Point Positioning....OK, what is PPP, and how accurate is it exactly. The…